Process & Practice

process

April 2026

8 min read

Building Procreate Brushes with AI — A Process Story

BrushWorxs Lab / Process Notes What started as a simple question — can Claude build Procreate brushes? — turned into one of the more satisfying deep-dives we've run in the lab.

behind the scenes

March 2026

9 min

Why I built my own shop instead of using a marketplace

The straightforward answer is margin. The more honest answer is control.

ai workflow

March 2026

7 min

I use AI for reference, not drawing

Let me be specific about what I actually do, because the word "AI" gets used to describe everything from "I used Photoshop's generative fill once" to "the AI makes the image and I write a prompt." My usage is neither.

technique

March 2026

6 min

Why I still ink on paper

I've been asked a version of this question a lot since I started talking openly about using AI in my workflow: if you're already using AI tools, why not just draw digitally and skip paper entirely?

process

March 2026

8 min

Commission workflow, start to finish

Every commission starts the same way: a brief that's half vague and half contradictory.